Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.

I have lately been reading accounts of the exploration of the western and northwestern deserts of Australia in the 1870s and I have become very aware of the effect absent necessities might have on the frequency of particular items in discourse.
Lately I've been reading about exploration of Australia's western and northwestern deserts in the 1870s, and I've noticed how often absent necessities are noted in the accounts.

The set of states flowing into a state cycle attractor plus that state cycle is called the "basin of attraction" of the attractor.
The set of states flowing into a state cycle attractor  called basin of attraction.

(Note: "Life and Art" is an occasional column that compares fiction, in various media, with the real-life facts it is ostensibly based on.)

(Note: "Life and Art" is and occasional column that compares fiction with real like facts.)

